Wendy's Country Lodge KwaZulu-Natal

... of wild life conservation specialists was a tight one and they told me numerous stories about the producers of every tv show on the wild life network. They also sent their employees to drive me into town to do some much needed souvenir shopping in their Mercedes.<br><br>Well the next day initially showed promise of better weather but finally it was more of the same and I took off for my flight to Jo'Burg to come home. A little bit of panic on the way back ...

Well here I am again, finally made it to an internet cafe. Been a crazy week, we have covered some serious distance. Altogether I think we have driven about 2700kms so far and more to go yet! After leaving our shark experience e headed down the coast and have seen some very pretty beaches, Wilderness was the favourite. So beautiful and ************e around. Our hostel had a terrace overlooking the sea where we watched the sun go down with a bottle of wine, lovely. We went to ...

... had seen them hunting animals, I explainied that many of them live on reservations and are very modern. We made some comparions between Native Ameicans and the Native Bush people of South Africa. We concluded the day by singing two camp songs as loud as possible! After school we came home, loaded the car and set off for a weekend in the Drakensburg Mountains.

... as a stop over, 2nights would be enough though. We decided to do the hike with 2 fit Germans (grrr!!!), Emily and Rachel -who were more of our hiking standard. We set off very early, took and hour in the van to get to the start of the trail up to the peak of the Sentinel. The hike was 6 hours and at no point was it easy or relaxing! We had to scale over rock faces with sheer death drops and climb up a gully (the person ahead of you ...

Today we headed towards the Drakensberg mountains and a luxury tented lodge to be shared with a family of baboons. This was wild 'luxury' camping at its best!! The following two days were to comprise of team football, walking in the mountains and a trip to the ...

My Safara was absolutely amazing. We saw 4 of the Big 5, minus the leopard which I could care less about. I saw the elephants and so my life is complete. We have a photo of 3 of the 5 together by one brook. Our guide asked us to send it to him because that's never happend. It was an Elephant bull, 2 white Rhinos and a lioness. Amazing. I'm glad I didn't get malaria or sunburn so I'd say my trip was an absolute success!

... Tomorrow I plan to go back and buy what I really wanted. Tomorrow we three, Claire, Dianna, and I, will be heading out of Durban for a hostel just out of town. I don't actually know where, Claire & Dianna have sort of figured that stuff out. Claire is done with her conference tomorrow (this whole Durban thing was just a business trip for her, while Dianna and I were just tourists) so we don't need to be in town anymore. Three more nights in Africa. It has ...

... a bit of denial about leaving them-maybe I just don't do well with goodbye. I just have to tell myself that I WILL see them again sometime, and I know we will keep in touch. Man, it makes me upset thinking and writing about all of this-so I will move on to something else... Alright-I catch the Baz Bus bright and early tomorrow morning and head down to South Coast where I will be spending the next few days at Port Shepstone Beach. It literally feels like I am carrying another ...

... resort, offering us a commanding view of the resort and the outlying area. Chasing the sun we diligently walked onward and upward hoping to catch a glimpse of whatever was behind the next rise. I was hoping to get a view of Lake Naverone from above, but alas it was not to be as the sun started setting behind a ridge of escarpment, offering us limited time to get home during the safety of relative daylight.